RL78

Renesas Brings Industry-Leading Performance of RA8 Series MCUs to Motor Control Applications

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火曜日, 1月 30, 2024

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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240130232378/en/
    The RA8T1 group is the third in Renesas’ RA8 Series, all of which deliver breakthrough performance of 6.39 CoreMark/MHz1.
  • These capabilities combined with the advanced timers and Renesas’ power management expertise, enable customers to build comprehensive, low-power motor control solutions.
  • The new MCUs are supported in Renesas’ Flexible Motor Control development kit that enables easy evaluation of motor control using permanent magnet synchronous motors (brushless DC motors), and the Renesas Motor Workbench development tool.
  • This development kit offers a common design platform with numerous Renesas motor control MCUs from the RA and RX families, enabling migration of IP across numerous devices.

Renesas’ New 16-bit RL78/G24 MCU Delivers Top-Class Performance for Motor Control and Power Supply Control Systems

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木曜日, 9月 28, 2023

The device’s enhanced peripheral functions, including analog and timer capabilities, are ideal for motor control, power supply control, and lighting control.

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  • The device’s enhanced peripheral functions, including analog and timer capabilities, are ideal for motor control, power supply control, and lighting control.
  • In particular, by using the FAA, the device can distribute tasks such as inverter control, encryption, sensing, and arithmetic operations efficiently and independently of the CPU, thus substantially boosting processing speed.
  • “With the FAA capability that comes with the RL78/G24, we were able to divide the communication processing for the CPU and power control as with the FAA.
  • Evaluation kits for motor applications and power/lighting applications are also available, which are ideal for initial evaluation of individual applications.

Renesas Embraces Microsoft Visual Studio Code Across Its Entire Industry-Leading MCU and MPU Lineup

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火曜日, 8月 1, 2023

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that customers can now use Microsoft® Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to program the complete line of Renesas microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors (MPUs).

Key Points: 
  • Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that customers can now use Microsoft® Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to program the complete line of Renesas microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors (MPUs).
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230801514714/en/
    The popular VS Code IDE simplifies and accelerates code editing across a variety of platforms and operating systems.
  • By providing support for VS Code, Renesas now enables a vast number of designers to create efficient embedded solutions with Renesas devices.
  • VS Code support complements Renesas’ own powerful and flexible e2 studio IDE used by thousands of designers worldwide.

Renesas Automotive MCU and SoC Cybersecurity Management Certified to ISO/SAE 21434:2021

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木曜日, 7月 20, 2023

The CSMS framework applies to Renesas’ design center in Musashi, Japan and has been certified by TÜV Rheinland Industrie Service GmbH according to the following.

Key Points: 
  • The CSMS framework applies to Renesas’ design center in Musashi, Japan and has been certified by TÜV Rheinland Industrie Service GmbH according to the following.
  • As indicated in an earlier press release , all Renesas automotive MCUs and SoCs which were developed after January 1, 2022, will sequentially follow this certified ISO/SAE 21434:2021 CSMS development process.
  • ISO/SAE21434:2021 certification is the latest addition to Renesas’ achievements, following the company’s long history of ISO 26262 compliance on automotive MCUs and SoCs.
  • Customers can be confident that when using Renesas MCUs and SoCs for next-generation automotive systems, they are complying with international standards in product cybersecurity and functional safety.

Renesas Introduces Low-Power RL78/G15 MCU with the Smallest 8-pin Package Option Available within the RL78 Family

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木曜日, 1月 12, 2023

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced a new general-purpose microcontroller (MCU) in the low-power RL78 Family, with small package sizes that target 8-bit MCU applications.

Key Points: 
  • Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced a new general-purpose microcontroller (MCU) in the low-power RL78 Family, with small package sizes that target 8-bit MCU applications.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230112005244/en/
    “The RL78 family is known for its excellent power efficiency and optimized peripheral functions,” said Toshihiko Seki, Vice President of Renesas' MCU Device Solution Business Division.
  • Renesas will continue to expand cost-effective and easy-to-use 8-bit and 16-bit MCUs that support customers’ requirements.”
    “We welcome the expansion of Renesas' RL78 family offerings to the extensive low-end MCU market,” said Lotta Frimanson, Director of Product Management at IAR Systems.
  • Renesas has developed the 100W USB Power Delivery (PD) Adaptor with Multi-Output solution that can power a variety of systems.

IAR Systems updates IAR Build and IAR C-SPY Debug Extensions for Visual Studio Code

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水曜日, 12月 7, 2022

The IAR Build and IAR C-SPY Debug Extensions v1.20 for VS Code are available for free download on Visual Studio Code Marketplace.

Key Points: 
  • The IAR Build and IAR C-SPY Debug Extensions v1.20 for VS Code are available for free download on Visual Studio Code Marketplace.
  • With IARs Visual Studio Code Extensions, developers can work in VS Code and take full advantage of the powerful features of IAR Embedded Workbench including the IAR C-SPY and IAR Build tools.
  • The adoption rate by the Visual Studio Code community exceeded our expectations after launching the first official Visual Studio Code extensions on GitHub and Marketplace this year, said Anders Holmberg, CTO at IAR Systems.
  • Editor's Note: IAR Systems, IAR Embedded Workbench, Embedded Trust, C-Trust, C-SPY, C-RUN, C-STAT, IAR Visual State, I-jet, I-jet Trace, IAR Academy, IAR, and the logotype of IAR Systems are trademarks or registered trademarks owned by IAR Systems AB.

Renesas Ready Partner Network Now Extends Across All Renesas MCUs and MPUs

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火曜日, 11月 8, 2022

Renesas has grown its world-class partner ecosystem for MCUs and MPUs, and we will continue to expand our network to make our customers lives easier, said Sailesh Chittipeddi, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit of Renesas.

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  • Renesas has grown its world-class partner ecosystem for MCUs and MPUs, and we will continue to expand our network to make our customers lives easier, said Sailesh Chittipeddi, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit of Renesas.
  • Ecosystems such as the Renesas Ready Partner Network are increasingly important thanks to the myriad solutions available for industrial IoT, said Chip Rodgers, Chief Marketing Officer, WorkSpan, a leading ecosystem business management platform.
  • The Renesas Ready Partner Network leverages pre-developed third-party software and hardware building blocks.
  • The Renesas RZ Family of 32-bit and 64-bit microprocessors (MPUs) enables the solutions required for the smart societies of the future.

Renesas to Support ISO/SAE 21434 Standard for Future Automotive Microcontrollers and System on Chip Devices

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水曜日, 10月 6, 2021

All future Renesas automotive MCUs and SoCs will sequentially follow the ISO/SAE 21434 standard with development starting from January 2022.

Key Points: 
  • All future Renesas automotive MCUs and SoCs will sequentially follow the ISO/SAE 21434 standard with development starting from January 2022.
  • Both ISO/SAE 21434 (released on August 31, 2021) and UNECE UN R155 require cybersecurity to be enforced across the entire automotive supply chain.
  • With Renesas commitment to ISO/SAE 21434, OEMs and Tier1 suppliers can have confidence in adopting Renesas solutions.
  • ISO/SAE 21434 is setting the international standard that outlines the requirements for security throughout the entire automotive life cycle, and Renesas has now adopted this standard.

Renesas’ New Modular IoT Development Platform Dramatically Reduces Time-to-Market and Design Complexity

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水曜日, 7月 7, 2021

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced an innovative new IoT system design platform that significantly eases the prototyping of IoT systems.

Key Points: 
  • Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced an innovative new IoT system design platform that significantly eases the prototyping of IoT systems.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210707005376/en/
    Renesas' new modular IoT development platform dramatically reduces time-to-market and design complexity (Graphic: Business Wire)
    As part of the Quick-Connect IoT system, Renesas has worked with Digilent, Inc. in creating a new expanded I2C Pmod Interface, Type 6A, for wider coverage and added flexibility.
  • Renesas has standardized on the new Pmod 6A connector from Digilent for new sensor Pmods and MCU development kits.
  • The Quick-Connect IoT design system is available today through a wide range of hardware and software offerings from Renesas.

IAR Systems and Secure Thingz present embedded security compliance solution for Renesas RX

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木曜日, 5月 27, 2021

CAMBRIDGE, England and UPPSALA, Sweden, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Systems, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, and Secure Thingz, an IAR Systems Group company, today presented Compliance Suite for Renesas RX.

Key Points: 
  • CAMBRIDGE, England and UPPSALA, Sweden, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Systems, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, and Secure Thingz, an IAR Systems Group company, today presented Compliance Suite for Renesas RX.
  • The Compliance Suite for Renesas RX is specifically designed for applications based on the Renesas RX family of microcontrollers (MCUs).
  • Compliance Suite for Renesas RX delivers a set of security development tools that are all integrated with the development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench.
  • Editor's Note: IAR Systems, IAR Embedded Workbench, Embedded Trust, C-Trust, C-SPY, C-RUN, C-STAT, IAR Visual State, IAR KickStart Kit, I-jet, I-jet Trace, I-scope, IAR Academy, IAR, and the logotype of IAR Systems are trademarks or registered trademarks owned by IAR Systems AB.